Sunday, January 8, 2012

Theory of Everything

In our downsizing kick, I sold most of
my books last year, and did another round several months ago.I had made far too many well-intentioned
purchases that would eventually just end up lingering on the shelf, unread.

But I’ve been reading a lot lately, more
now than ever.I’m lucky to work within
walking-distance of the Boston Public Library. I started with safe genres, like
jewelry and simplifying.And then, a
happy accident a few months ago: the internet was broken at work, so I did the
work I could do without a computer and was dismissed after only an hour.I spent the next few hours wandering the
stacks.And now my new pet topic is
string theory. For laymen, of course, so a lot of Michio Kaku.